Police arrest man accused of shooting woman in butt with BB

Published 12:38 pm, Sunday, June 9, 2013

SEATTLE -- Seattle Police arrested a man after he allegedly fired a his plastic BB gun and a hit a woman in the butt who was out for a walk with her family in West Seattle on Saturday,

Police said they arrived at 42nd Ave. S.W. and S.W. Graham Street after receiving a report that the woman was struck by the BB at 8:02 p.m.

The woman, her husband, and their child went out for a walk in their neighborhood when they heard what they thought was someone firing the BB gun at tin cans, Det, Jeff Kappel said.

Soon after, the woman was struck on the butt by a BB, police said. Her husband believed he saw someone fire a BB-type rifle from the window of a nearby apartment complex and pointed that out to officers who checked it out.